Thursday, March 20, 2014

Searcher 3/20 - Women know something you don't

Many of the online discussions this week were discussing the
reading, “ Women Know Something You Don’t”
and how women undergo things due to abortion that people will never understand,
whether it be their reasons or their feelings after the procedure. This article
in the New York Times bring to light
all the struggles that women who have considered or undergone abortion must go
through.

The article is present in an array of stories from women all
across the country. After reading the stories the common things that I noticed
were that the women did not want to bring their babies into a bad lifestyle, they
felt judged by those that don’t agree and they had no knowledge about abortion.
All of these influences led them to their choices, whether they were right or
wrong. But regardless of their reasoning
it was theirs choice to make, because others, those judging them, weren’t going
to be there to help them raise the child if they didn’t go through with the
abortion.

Many people are against the idea of abortion because they
think it is essentially killing a human. However, as seen in many of the
stories in the article, abortions are often done to protect the child, whether
it’s from an unsafe lifestyle due to low SES or health problems that the child
would be born with. These are all things that protesters don’t consider when
thinking about the banning of abortion.

People really don’t know all that women have to go through
when dealing with pregnancies and weighing out their option. This article does
a good job of illustrating these issues through the stores of women who have
suffered through it themselves.